Tag: Apocalypse World

The topic for Day 7 of #RPGaDAY is "How would you improve one of your favorite games?"
It's actually "What was your most impactful game session?" but I really don't want to delve into that one, partially because "impactful" means different things to different people and partially because the question doesn't interest me.
Instead, I'll follow the rule from earlier years, where we substitute questions. Hence: how would you improve one of your favorite games? This question came forth after reading Shut Up & Sit Down's review of Tales from the Loop, where they pretty much nailed everything my thoughts on the game, positive and negative.
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The #RPGaDAY prompt for today -- er, yesterday -- is "You can game every day for a week. Describe what you'd do!"
Nah. That's not as interesting as how I initially misread the topic: "You can game every day in a week!" Let's answer that question.
The base assumption is I get to play roleplaying games every single day! We'll just pretend there's some magic time thing that happened that lets me get my work done and I still get time to have fun with the family. And I have time to do GM prep...
So let's see.
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Today's #RPGaDAY question: which RPG have I played the most this past year? Well, that's Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. We've been playing through the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign setting most weeks, a few hours at a time for over a year now, but the cracks are starting to show in the product (and game system) and, well, I'm just hoping we'll finish soon and move onto something else.
Before the new edition of D&D came out, I was done with the fantasy genre. I hated the complexity of third edition D&D (and 3.5 and Pathfinder) and fourth edition just wasn't anything that I would have considered "fun". The only option I was looking at for fantasy role-playing was the Dragon Age RPG, which seemed to take forever to publish set 3, the upper-level ruleset, but I know that was a significant delay due to licensing approvals. We would have been playing that if the licensor would have approved the...